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democratically elected president ousted and held incommunicado since two thousand and thirteen events shrouded in secrecy so power change hands as the military seize control from its commander in chief. for the first time reveals exclusively what happened behind closed doors directly from those who witnessed it firsthand more see the final hours on al-jazeera. that's now being held in pretrial detention. what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried
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yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he said. we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable in the immediate release of all colleagues. and all. in all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. isn't the problem for your town that they may not have a hell of a question mark over him but he does have a corruption question mark over it doesn't look good for the illegitimate official has not going to do it he will probably not knowing what is going to decide and he
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will you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the us across the globe. is called for the brakes doesn't build confidence it breaks will join me mad the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. santa maria and this is the news from al-jazeera. the possibility of him being told to trim it for these families. and many of them. some solace for families of the victims in new zealand's worst mass shooting as police prepares
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to hand over the bodies of the dead. in the majors sang he's painted for a long time so he's not of sad moment i'll have that thing but also shock and disbelief among relatives of the gunman accused of the crime of shooting also we have the philippines pulls out from the international criminal court opposing moves to examine president to territories war against drugs and sport valtteri bottas wednesday opening formula one problem for a season driver pushing his teammate to add defending world champion lewis hamilton in teams second place. hello everyone it's four am in christchurch where new zealanders will soon wake up to an increased security situation across the country three days now since fifty people were killed by a gunman at two mosques and while the pain in the shock is still raw attention is
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now on making sure it never happens again new zealand's top police officer says there will be a highly visible presence across the country as people return to work on monday morning extra officers deployed around schools businesses and places of worship prime minister just in the ardennes promised to tighten gun laws has been widely welcomed by new zealanders in fact a cabinet is considering options such as banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and also a government funded buyback of outlawed guns meanwhile grieving family members of the victims will soon have the chance to bury them as investigators are hoping to return their bodies by women's day but start with this from when he is in christchurch. the announcement from new zealand's promise to. the police that the process is beginning of handing back the bodies to family members will certainly be welcomed there had been growing frustration really among some of the family members who have been waiting for news waiting for confirmation waiting for those bodies to
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be returned to them some of those people voicing their frustration saying that this was taking too long because of course islamic custom dictates that the body should be buried within twenty four hours after death in this case that simply hasn't been possible because of the sheer magnitude of what took place in christchurch on friday the police have said look we understand the cultural and religious circumstances around this being working very closely they say with religious leaders but they had to take their time the forensic process is still underway inside those two mosques where the attack took place the police still working in that area trying to find any pieces of evidence that may still be there the bodies however have been removed and they are all in the hospital behind me hospital where the injured. while the surgical procedures continue. the procedures regarding the did that is. and also the identification process so that news that the bodies
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will be handed back to the family members will be welcomed as i say there was. that this will continue to be a slow process and she hopes that it will be completed by wednesday in the meantime this city will begin to at least try to get back to normal on monday it is the start of a new working week the police are saying they want people to try to get back home they say they will be a significant increase in security right around this city as that new week begins outside institutions like schools. places of worship as well remembering that mosques were ordered close right around the country can now open according to the police. will be a police presence outside those mosques on monday and probably throughout the course of the week well tributes are being held all over new zealand for victims of
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the attacks thomas is also reporting from christchurch on the outskirts of christ church they are digging graves fifty needed now the official number killed rose on sunday when police clearing bodies from the two mosques attacked found one they had not been aware of before. a list of victims names have been shared with. the police commissioner confirmed that the man they have in custody brenton tyrant is the only suspect in friday's attacks three others arrested shortly after they took place a not now believed to have been involved. called a witness the immediate aftermath of the attacks he was driving past the al gore mosque and saw people running he jumped out of his call to help the wounded and the dying that was a. daughter who are fighting for their laws particularly the daughter to be about five she was touching god. i've not the boat and managed to get the father of the
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daughter in the back of that and out because the ambulances weren't coming and i will add on because i was on the edge of the corner but i would let them because the area was a secure. you know what happened to that go for them and we're all here that there was a father and daughter that hostile wife and daughter this fall i don't know whether that was the site. of the building that we were near. in wellington new zealand's prime minister met with muslim communities to again stress a solid darity and support and around the country a christian church services muslim victims were in the thoughts and prayers more than thirty people remain in hospital some still in a critical condition many of the patients that are being already gone from the incident require more surgeries as
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a consequence of the complexity of the nature of the injuries in a christ church where house volunteers are giving their time and florists their flowers to make bouquet is to lay on coffins each one represents a life a family member that were a bomb or day its. own brother or sister. to sound yes sorry. there will be fifty bouquets for fifty newly dug graves under thomas al-jazeera cross church. the suspect charged with the shootings is from australia and his hometown of grafton some of friends and terence family members have spoken of bad shock and disbelief we're all gulps mike we don't know what to think it is. you know the major sighing he's painted for a long time so he's of this really not of san ramon i don't think it's only since
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he traveled overseas so i think that boy and china can play plato the way new was sorry for the families over there for the day to. day which is. something no one else does when they go i mean. well our reporter your grandmother went to grafton in new south wales and found a community trying to distance itself from him it's dawn in the sleepy provincial town of grafton it's waking up to another day reflection about the horrific events in christchurch and its connection to it. brenton tarrant spent at least the first twenty years of his life in grafton before travelling around the world he went to the local school and worked as a personal trainer in a gym his alleged attack on two mosques in christ church last week has deeply disturbed religious leaders in his home town we've got the inside to you now he
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said that you know they will we all sectarian you know how all of these little kids are going to leave the members of the most community in christ church the mood here is samba this is a community grappling to come to terms with one of their own baying a suspect in the worst mass killing in new zealand's history it's just a time for the community to gather and just kind of be together get strength from solidarity and hopefully put our roots down deep and sign are we not that's that's not us what happened and what this guy did is not is not crofton's parishioners who know the tyrant family say it's well respected and has been here for generations like one pipe and farmers good down bourke probably are what did you think when you heard that someone from grafton was involved. i was shocked. others had
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a message for christ's church people grafton just reach out and say you know we we don't know what went wrong but obviously that will come in but you know we just some thoughts and prayers with here and hope that we can get some sort of closure. while the town family has deep roots here community members say it's keeping a low profile following the attack in christchurch we've managed to speak with people who knew brenton tarrant well they say they don't want to appear on camera because they don't want to be associated with the alleged killer of fifty people they say the man accused of the christ church attacks is not the man they once knew . him al-jazeera craft and. it's got the social side of things here facebook says in the twenty four hours after the attack it removed one and a half million videos of it globally but people are still posting and sharing the suspects shooting video social media platforms now under pressure for fighting to stop it and the hate filled manifesto from going viral technology.
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designed to get maximum coverage teased on twitter and day chen broadcast live on facebook and all while referencing a popular you tube channel to grab attention and accelerate it sprayed and sprayed it did by the time the social media companies stopped its broadcast it had been shared repeatedly and migrated to listen on sites so why was it so difficult for big to companies with all their resources and latest technology to contain the damage well it turns out it's not as easy as it seems. facebook google twitter and you tube use automated moderation tools to track and remove objectionable content they're part of the global internet forum to counter terrorism leaving each other know about extremist material and they attach digital signatures known as hedges to stop their content being uploaded again but machines
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aren't enough they also have human content to moderate is tracking checking and deleting content around the clock but live content is problematic and the attack video was live for seventeen minutes long enough for it to find a home on smaller sites last down rabbit holes that the vast majority of us know nothing about one of them is the listen on mrs board ha in which he used to propagate his extremist views into a he announced his attack it's a digital haven where users can remain anonymous and there is little moderation people there have been posting and praising the gunman's actions some commentators say there is little incentive for the big tech companies to do better it's monitoring content given there are no fives and no penalties if they fail or they're now just too big to police content effectively anyway blocking sites is one
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option but that's open to abuse by those who support censorship potentially taking away more than a protects open unfettered access to an end to connected global network of information for everyone is what the web was founded on but something failed during the murders in new zealand and no one see it sure how to fix it and whose job that should be. let's stay with this thing mentorship ala social media producers following reaction to the shooting since they happened welcome all we've seen people around the world attending vigils in memory of the fifty people who were killed in christ church tens of thousands of people here in the capital wellington showed their sympathy and solidarity by packing into the basin reserve cricket ground and new zealand's jewish community closed all synagogues nationwide for the first time during in solidarity with kiwi muslims now for many on line commentators prime minister has been a role model of sorts for the kind of compassion they expect from their political
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leaders when she was asked by president trump what kind of support the u.s. could provide her message was sympathy and love for all muslim communities and the prime minister was also emphatic that new zealand's gun laws will will change a promise that has simply dumbfounded a lot of people on twitter especially in the united states preston mitchum is an attorney in washington d.c. who can't believe how quickly all of this is happening how quickly that change of laws was announced now alternate is expected to discuss any potential changes to gun laws with government ministers in a few hours here's how some residents of christ church feel about that. it could well be a bit of a comeback on the bunch of guys that got more weapons on line and. you know as long as they were responsible just cause of the rationing i mean you could have some sort of freedom. going to unite. eat lead away
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from the surprise you have for what using it for no good to still be no opposition to because. because there's no there's no movement here in new zealand all day like this like all the news stations all the life politics is likewise going now again we are still waiting to see what action the government may take but the activists adam best says that new zealand has already taken more action on gun control during the twenty four hours after this mass shooting than the us has during the twenty years after columbine two very different systems of government of course new zealanders have no constitutional right to own a gun but that's certainly not a good enough excuse for an action as many people are discussing today. thank you and your plenty more ahead on this news hour says security is stepped up around settlements in the occupied west bank offer. as readies were killed there. the pilot wanted to turn back almost immediately after takeoff new information about the deadly crash of sunday's ethiopian airlines plane and sport the defending
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n.b.a. champions clinch a playoff spot on the way to setting a new franchise record. so the israeli army has launched a major operation in the occupied west bank after at least one israeli was killed two others wounded and the stabbing in shootings by a suspected palestinian attack out the latest on that with harry for that live for us from west jerusalem how to bring us up to date. well what we're hearing from israeli military is that the attacker stopped at a an intersection southwest of nablus the aerial intersection young and west bank stabbed an israeli soldier took his weapon and then fired on other vehicles that soldier has just recently confirmed to been killed he was nineteen years old. another civilian was shot and injured in one of those passing cars
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a forty seven year old who's been named by the israeli media as a rabbi from an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank the attack of then got into another car and one that had been abandoned apparently by another israeli and then drove to another intersection where he fired on a bus stop injuring another israeli soldier excuse me so we now have one confirmed dead two seriously injured. the car was then found abandoned at a nearby palestinian village of burkean and there has been a major a concentration of israeli forces in that village during the course of the afternoon some reports of an exchange of gunfire.

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